Can loss and grief activate latent neoplasia?

Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 102-105

  Biondi, Massimo ^a   Costantini, Anna ^b   Parisi, Annamaria ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b SAN CAMILLO FORLANINI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Depression; Grief; Immune function; Psychological stress

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; CARCINOGENESIS; CASE REPORT; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GRIEF; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOMODULATION; MARRIAGE; MENTAL STRESS; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 17; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; GRIEF; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; MIDDLE AGED; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0029928736     PISSN: 00333190     EISSN: 14230348     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000289055     Document Type: Article

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